For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9
This verse testifies what last year actually became a reality in my life. It was an exciting experience, and I am eager to share it with you! His ways are truly past finding out and it is so wonderful, so be serving such a great and mighty God, knowing that we can trust that His ways are much better and higher that what we could ever imagine!
Last fall, I was not able to attend Hope Youth Bible School, and it crushed me, because I was able to be apart of the previous two, and the doors were closed for me to go to the one that was coming up. I begged and pleaded with God to "please open the doors and give me a blessing!" A sister from Hope encouraged my sister and I that she would be praying that we would have a Bible School in our hearts, even though we couldn't be there for "the real thing." Deep in my heart I was thinking, "Yeah right! There is no way we can, not with our circumstances!" I so badly longed to have a Bible School in my heart, but I so desperately desired to be with like-minded young people; to seek the Lord in a spiritual minded place. I keep beseeching the Lord that He would allow us to go. With much prayer, I also tried to avoid bitterness as much as possible as I knew from experienced that a heart filled with hurt, easily turned to bitterness.
During the week, we were out of town, and I was still crying, praying, and seeking. "Why does God allow this," I kept thinking, "Doesn't He know my hurt?! It seems like everything is going against me! Where are you God?!" I knew that I desperately needed Him, and started praying just that with all that there was with in me. And God was so faithful to answer me, "exceedingly abundantly above all that I could ever ask or think" of Him! As I started excepting, embracing this, as God perfect will for me, heaven began to open over my life. My quiet times were so full of riches from Above that I could hardly contain myself. Questions that I had for months, were answered. Verses were grabbing me from the chapters that I was reading. And every time I felt a twinge of grief, pain, and disappointment, His loving arms held me and truly I can say, as the song says, "Heaven came down, and glory filled my soul!" Hallelujah!
I never was able to see my friends that came to CO, I never was able to hear reports of BS until much later, I never got to meet the people who wanted to meet me after corresponding, yet after this blessing from Above, I actually didn't care! I met with Jesus and He became closer and sweeter, and REAL to me during that week. Truly, God had heard this sister's prayers, and I had a "Bible School in my heart!" I learned that we don't have to live our lives from one Bible School to another, but to live in its blessedness continually!
Whether I'll be able to go this fall, I don't know. Perhaps you don't know if you'll be going either this fall, But we DO know that whether it is in a building, in our homes, or on the road, God is always faithful to meet our needs, God is always ready to be our All in all. Oh let us trust Him, and trust that His perfect will, WILL be done in our lives!
For His glory,
Cheri Cross